Climate change, largely due to human activities, is currently underway, with more very serious - and largely unstoppable changes - expected in the next 25 years, and landowners, communities, farmers, businesses, communities and state and local government should pay attention, anticipate and start adapting...
As I noted in my April 15 post, http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/04/15/bush-hoist-by-own-petard-prepares-global-warming-initiative.aspx , President Bush has indeed just made a specific policy statement on climate change . There is much in it to discuss - and disagree with - in what...
More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod=WSJBlog And, finally, at a press briefing at the White...
Ron Bailey of Reason , reporting from Bali, has an interesting post up summarizing the discussion by James Connaughton, director of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, on one small aspect of the climate conundrum, namely, what would be actually involved in meeting the energy shortfall...